Picture This!Trick Lenses—What The Unaided Eye Never Sees

Our Picture This! assignment for this month was on Trick Lenses and how they help us to see in ways that our normal perception does not allow. Readers responded with images that used accessory lenses, as well as glass that distorts light in fascinating ways. Some used scanners to create imagery, while others “squeezed” light through pinhole apertures. While photography is mostly used to “draw from nature,” these images prove that it can also be used to see the world in ways that the unaided eye might otherwise never see.